IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mahoning
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1954OH007058
  • User Pedon ID: 1954-OH007-058
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AB-058
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70294
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Harpersfield Twp.; about 2 1/4 miles south of Harpersfield. Sample taken along the Cork- Coldsprings Rd. at a distance of about 1/4 mile west of the Cork-Coldsprings Rd.-St.Rt. 534 intersection.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH007—Ashtabula

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: w. j. meyer & D. H. TOUVELL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mahoning
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - 742
  • Classificaton Date - 11/12/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Wisconsinan till; Shale
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/12/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    298.7

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) Error; fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001769
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) Error; medium and coarse granular structure; friable; 11 percent medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001770
    Bt—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001771
    Btg1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) Error; moderate angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001772
    Btg2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) Error; coarse prismatic, and weak subangular blocky structure; firm; light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # OSU0001773
    Btg3—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; coarse prismatic, and massive; firm; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # OSU0001774
    C—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); Error; fragments. Lab sample # OSU0001775. Till, possibly weathered shale.